Don’t mind me, I’m just happy to see my flag 😭🇭🇹

It would make the second half so much more interesting if they left Benito's sugarcane up.

Here’s a good book I often recommend on this subject.

I’ve seen commercials during the Super Bowl for like three other things that are debuting March 20. Do they not understand that date is unavailable?

I'm stoked that the Humble Bundle of my and @annaleen.bsky.social's books from Tor has raised nearly $5000 for the TGI Justice Project and Miss Major/Alexander Lee Black Trans Cultural Center. www.humblebundle.com/books/charli... Let me tell you about when I went to the TGIJP's anniversary party

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Happy #FossilFriday from this stupid Xiphactinus that I found last April! She is fresh out od prep and just as ugly as I imagined she would be.

Mongolia and Haiti correctly identified that the Winter Olympics are primarily a chance to design baller cold weather uniforms

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

Read more about the In Translation StoryBundle here: storybundle.com/blog/intrans...

the #storybundle this month "In Translation" has books originally in: Shona isiZulu Korean Arabic Tamil Hausa Malay Brazilian Portuguese Thai French Nishinaabemowin Ukrainian storybundle.com/translation

no disrespect, but I'm not subscribing to your Substack for reasons that should be obvious if you google words like "substack" and "nazis"

Only 10 cases of Guinea worm disease were recorded *globally* last year. It may become the second human disease we eradicate, after smallpox.

fun fact I wish I had realized earlier: if you can't get rid of a stain you can just embroider stuff all over it

The public library is an essential component of a 21st-century left political project as an example of both what is already available to us and what can be improved upon in the future. The library is a public good, and it is free as a public service. I want more people to make the connections.

Eccentric Orbits, ink on yupo, 2026 #sciart

The word armadillo is borrowed from Spanish and simply means “little armored one.” But an even better word for an armadillo, in my opinion, is the Nahuatl ayotochtli. It means “turtle rabbit.”

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💜 BTS is/in Art 💜 I'm in love with this edit, this cape, and this man. ART USED: Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II, Gustav Klimt (1912) #btsisinart #bts #jimin

Look at him, the smallest possible salticid 🥹 (Neonella camillae) #EmotionalSupportSpood

#bts #arirang #btsarmy No tickets today for me. Entered the queue at 70,000 so I knew from the getgo it was unlikely but I am still sad. Will try again on Saturday

In which I explain that the Third Amendment—the one nobody ever talks about—allows hotels to refuse to house Kristi Noem’s ICE goons.

Soviet Armenian illustration (1957) showing a mob in the US blocking a young black student’s path to school.

I went to the mushroom walk at Black Bayou over the weekend. Some of my best observations

'Be Yourself' - Taniuchi Masato, late 1900s. The poem is translated roughly as, "Do not try to over extend, just be yourself.". #Caturday #JapaneseArt

Houston Texans’ Azeez Al-Shaair has reportedly been fined $11,593 for wearing eye black that contained the message "stop the genocide” The report says he was fined for violating NFL uniform and equipment rules www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

www.monroe-westmonroe.org/events/fungi... There is a Fungi Tour at Black Bayou in Monroe Louisiana tomorrow morning at 10 am. #MonroeLa #Fungi

There’s many more layers to the title than just this, but this layer sits very close to my heart: “From the 1960s to 1980s, when Korea was under the rule of authoritarian leaders, "Arirang" was often used as a song for pro-democracy rallies.” www.koreatimes.co.kr/lifestyle/20...

January through March is planting season here in Louisiana, so if you're thinking about your garden, time to get into action or start planning! We're getting ready ourselves This is what/when to plant (south LA in purple from LSU ag center. What y'all planting? www.lsuagcenter.com/~/media/syst...

finally, the longest valid genus name! K is for Kimmeridgebrachypteraeschnidium

In case you suffer from seasonal low mood or have been anxious or sad today, here are the earliest spring flowers-these will be blooming in a few weeks’ time 🌿

New additions to the public domain from 1930: web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...

D is for Dichotomosiphon (it's the algae)

#BTSComeback2026 #BTSfanart

Butlerian jihad fucking yesterday please

One of Australia's most common and distinctive ants is the colorful Rhytidoponera metallica, seen here with silken cocoons in the brood nest. Diamond Creek, Victoria.

This is wonderful — a free art book (no AI!) to download, with invertebrate art from round the world. Such a variety of beautiful pieces 🤩 Also featuring one from me - a langoustine for a birthday card (the gift was a voucher for a seafood restaurant) from last year 🦐 #InverteFest

Mantis Incense Burner, Japan — 1800s

I found some tiny crabs in the sea 🦀✨️ It felt just like a crab kindergarten!! ⁡ かにがにの多様性𓂃◌𓈒𓐍

Look at me being handy. Swapped the blade around on my fancy bread knife so I can actually use it. (I’m left-handed.)

Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *lowest* on record (JAXA data) 🛠️🧪 • about 500,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 1,110,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,670,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 2,000,000 km² below the 1980s mean More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

We hope the BlueSky moderators don't flag today's offering for #MosaicMonday as being, ahem... prawnographic. 😳

This is adorable. Nick Kosir is a weatherman, and he made a parody of 'Killin' It Girl' about the weather. With actual KIG choreo. The man is bold. Original on Insta: www.instagram.com/p/DSdiYSYkfkt/ #BTS

I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

Day 18: Triceratops Wellness check-in. Have you had your mud bath and snack today? #ArtAdventCalendar #Art #DigitalArt #Dinosaur #Triceratops #SciArt #Paleontology #PaleoArt #Orange #Nature #Animal

no one asked but just so everyone who follows me knows, real psychrolutes (blobfish) look like this normally

In 2017, I supported a paper that described trilobite eggs in the cheeks. Horseshoe crabs also store eggs this way until they are fertilized. I helped with the SEM images. Beecher's Bed is one of my favorite localities. #12DaysofFossils

i love "Terracotta mask in the shape of the head of a fox, dog, or bat ca. 600–480 BCE" so much he's so perfect

Would you eat this dissected gingerbread man based off Jason Freeny's original artwork? #medsky #medicalhistory #skystorians Photo: Qimmy Shimmy